If all journeys are teachers, it may well be that a journey to India is the greatest teacher of all. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God,” and it was in search of a new dance that I purchased a one-way ticket on the longest train in India.
Timelapse video:
Indian Railways train #15906, the Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express, travels 4,273km as it winds its way from the... more
My name is Dirk Hardy. I’m a 27-year-old Dutch photographer currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. For the past eighteen months, I worked on a personal project called... more
Want to remove noise in a high ISO photo while preserving the details and textures in your shot? Here’s a simple photography and Photoshop technique that lets you easily do that.
The above is a 3-minute video tutorial by travel photographer Jimmy McIntyre.
Always be careful when doing a photo shoot on the edge of the ocean. This 20-second video shows what can happen in the blink of an eye.
The woman, Rosangela de Silva, was on a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week when she decided to do a mermaid pose for some photos on one of the large rocks.
“On a beach day, I decided to take a photograph on a rock that I found gorgeous,” De Silva... more
In a statement released on Tuesday, photo sharing site Flickr announced that its desktop Auto-Uploadr tool, which automatically and privately uploads images to a users account, is now available only to paying 'Pro' customers. Users with free accounts must upgrade to Pro to continue using the tool.
Flickr Pro offers a few benefits over free accounts, including ad-free browsing, access to additional stats, discounts on Flickr merchandise shipping, a 20% discount for Adobe... more
You never know when a good photo opportunity will present itself to you. Always be prepared.
I’m a Boy Scout (Eagle Scout), and always be prepared was our motto. Whenever we got ready for a camping trip, we made sure we had all of our supplies, and we always planned for contingencies or what ifs?
The most important case of being prepared in photography is to always have your camera with you for those what if scenarios.
As many of you have noticed, we had a few hours of downtime this morning. We made some changes that didn’t sit well with the server. Things seem to be stabilizing now. Sorry about that.
We’re working hard to optimize the website, listen to reader feedback, and made fixes/improvements/adjustments to the new design that we launched last week.
